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"All you can eat" public WiFi - special Broadreach offer coming

Fancy unlimited WiFi wireless access at 370 UK stations, any number of Virgin stores, and a whole bunch of Youth Hostels for six months - all for fifty pounds?

The trick is to sign up early. Broadreach is best known as a provider of internet kiosks, but it's been gearing up to go wireless for some time, and we recently reported on its plans to equip all Virgin trains with wireless later this year.

Up to March 25th, all these sites have been free, in "trial mode" which means only a month left. For example, this story was written in the Fullers pub above Paddington Station, and transmitted entirely free of charge to my site over Broadreach's local node. After March 25, however, I'll have to pay.

But there's a special introductory offer being planned, I discovered after visiting Broadreach's web site.

The URL you actually want is the registration button. Use it: if you do, you'll get an offer of six months trial, all you can eat Internet - for a very low fee.

I did my best to talk Magnus McEwen-King into giving me a pointer to "how much" but all he would agree was that it would be "a lot less than 100 pounds for six months" and said he'd be announcing full details "shortly."